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Miss Positivity

I have a co-worker I like to refer to as Miss Positivity. When I’m ranting and raving about someone whose causing me issues, she’s all. “You never know what’s going on in her life. She might be having issues.”

I tried to get her to say something bad about anyone.

Nope.

So I asked, “What about a serial killing cannibal?”

To which she replied, “He might have a vitamin deficiency, you never know.”

I know people like that and I have a theory. They aren’t really very happy. In fact it is their constant optimism that I think masks an underlying depression or loneliness or fear. When you think about it, they are positive while combative. Forcing you to see things their way. I would trust someone with a scowl on their face–honesty–over positive people any day.

OMG … reminds me of my mother-in-law (God bless her). She would never say a bad word about anyone. She would get me so ticked off. My father-in-law was the angriest, most prejudiced person you would have wanted to meet. The two of them together made for some seriously entertaining evenings to say the least. This was a very funny and relateable post. 😀

I had a colleague like that – then the boss told her he was not giving her a contract as permanent staff and she must go. After that she did not see the good in anyone in the company anymore and eagerly told me what rotten people they all were 😀

how old is the lady? i try to get my mom to feel the way i do when i vent about friends or people who rubbed me the wrong way. she just went through the big M lately though and now that she doesn’t have any hormones, I think it’s made a difference. I am counting down the days till i don’t have any either yay!

I think some people develop that kind of mindset to deal with stress. It is a possibility that Ms. Positivity is conditioning herself to think that way to protect herself from the stressful events. Maybe you should ask her what she thinks should be done to serial killers.

She belongs to that “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all” group? Maybe she has a vitamin deficiency causing defective thinking….or watches that musical “Annie” too much….or she just loves to irritate the heck out of you!

I used to work for the Post Awful (or Post Offal, whichever you prefer), and there was a LOT of black humor about the “going postal” situation. We all knew, given the proper stimuli, the shooter could be any of us.

I now have strong inducement to take my vitamins every morning. And yes – I *will* be that mother who says, “Take your vitamins, Bobby-Joe, or you’ll end up a cannibalistic serial killer…”
Just sayin’.